NOTICE
WHAT IT'S LIKE // TO HAVE A SEIZURE
> We know you're curious ... | BY AUDI MORRISON, AS TOLD TO MOLLY MARTINI
They always start the same way. I feel the muscles in my left arm twitch. I feel my eyes flutter up and down.
People must wonder, "Why is she fidgeting? Can't she just sit still?"
I am fidgeting because I am about to go into an epileptic seizure that I can't control. No, I cannot just sit still.
A minute later I feel nothing...
People tell me my eyes stop fluttering and roll back into my head. My left arm stops twitching and starts convulsing along with every other limb on my body. My jaw clamps together and my teeth bite down on my tongue and cause it to bleed.
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Out of control: Audi Morrison, West Plains, Mo. junior, says that after an epileptic seizure she is surrounded by onlookers and it takes her awhile to remember where she is.
Sometimes I hit my head pretty hard. During winter break of my junior year in high school I was walking along the streets of downtown Crested Butte, Colo. when I felt my arm start to twitch. I fell over on my side and hit my head on the sidewalk outside one of the town's shops. My mom and sister were there to cradle my head and to keep my arms and legs from flailing too violently.
to relax. My head aches.
Three to four minutes later my body starts
Coming out of a seizure is like waking up in the morning, but fuzzier, especially if I'm reeling from a minor concussion. It takes me a few minutes to adjust and figure out what happened.
I feel the stares of the people surrounding me.
I wonder, "Ahh, I had another one? Great."
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GUY 1: So, tell me something about yourself.
GIRL: I hate people who randomly cry ...
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GUY 2: Fail.
GUY: That's not fair.
PROFESSOR: Don't hate the teacher, hate the game.
GUY: I think I'm gonna retire my penis for awhile.
GIRL: My sushi smells like when she's wet, but I love it
GUY: You're a bad pet owner.
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Other Signs:
out to be controlling.
The next morning she woke up naked in a hotel room just outside Manhattan, covered in bruises and scratches. Seven naked men slept on the floor around her. The men paid Tebow's friend to drug and bring her to the hotel. Her friend set her up for a night she would never forget. She turned into a victim of sex trafficking that night. All she wanted to do was have a
3. Putting you down - The controller doesn't only want to be in control of your actions, but also your emotions.
- Isolating you from friends and family
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Kristen Tebow, a woman from Manhattan, just wanted to make friends her freshman year at Kansas State University. On a typical weekend night, she made plans with a new friend from marching band. She and her newly found friend visited a typical bar on the outskirts of Manhattan. Tebow's friend got her a drink; a few moments later she felt like the "world went crazy" and passed out in the bar's bathroom.
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- Isolating you from friends and family
- Discouraging you from pursuing outside interests
- Perpetually blaming you for his or her own actions (anger, cheating,yelling,etc.)
- Embarrassing you in public
- Constantly discounting your feelings
- Cycling through moods
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Adapted from The Midwest Center for Stress and Anxiety
Thursday night, Tebow took back that night from those seven
Incidents like Tebow are not uncommon. And just like Tebow, survivors of sexual assault, rape,
little fun in college.
"I just wanted somebody to hold me at that point," Tebow said. "I was crying for my dad."
men and her "friend."
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The Clothesline Project was a visible contribution to Take Back the Night Thursday evening. Victim and supporters created shirts to hang on the clothesline to tell their stories or to send a message about domestic violence.
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HEALTH
Filling the gap in children's scoliosis treatment
Lisa Friis, assistant professor in mechanical engineering, said there are no available spines from deceased children with scoliosis to be modeled off of.
For every 1,000 children in the United States, three to five will develop scoliosis severe enough to require surgery. However, there are zero model pediatric spines to guide the course of treatment.
University researchers are working on a more accurate spinal model
BY MEG LOWRY
mlowry@kansan.com
Lewis leads a group of graduate students and undergraduate students who help with the research. The group works closely with a pediatric surgeon from Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City,
Mo., and medical device companies, which offer their insight. Creating a pediatric spine replica with nothing to work off of and measure from creates many challenges. For example, the engineers know that children are more flexible and their tissues are less dense, and that they will grow. However, they do not know to what extent.
A federal grant of more than $1 million was awarded to the engineering department to fund spinal replica research. Friis, who has worked as a research scientist in orthopedics since 2001, said the grant was well-founded.
"The spinal industry is about 15 to 25 years behind other areas of orthopedics," Friis said. "Some spinal surgery procedures still
The lab has successfully created a model of an adult lumbar spine, which has enabled researchers to now begin creating a pediatric model spine.
don't have as high of success rates as other surgeries, so these are the types of things we are looking at now."
"It's extremely difficult to create a model of a spine when we don't know the target values and also incorporate somehow the physiological changes that occur in kids," Lewis said.
"The spine is a series of connected joints." Friis said. "If you do something to one level, it will affect all levels up and down. If we can create models and find how treatment influences functions on adjacent levels, we will be able to design implants better."
male's spine does not really represent a 12-year-old girl's, but this is what they are using to test spinal implants on," Friis said.
These kinds of surgeries include spinal implants and fusions, which are used to treat scoliosis.
"Babies are much more flexible, for example, and in some places have cartilage instead of bone," Lewis said. "Those kinds of properties just don't change overnight, so we are trying to find out how surgeries can work with that."
Erin Lewis, a graduate student in bioengineering from Fort Scott, said medical device companies rely on a scaled-down model of an adult spine, which can lead to error and confusion.
Scoliosis surgeries involve
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